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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself

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